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Dubious apps on Google Play Store have impersonated the Directorate of Kerala State’s lotteries — Kerala Lottery Online and India Kerala Lottery — and are duping people, cybersecurity researchers warned on Tuesday.
Dubious apps on Google Play Store have impersonated the Directorate of Kerala State’s lotteries — Kerala Lottery Online and India Kerala Lottery — and are duping people, cybersecurity researchers warned on Tuesday.
Both the applications hosted on Google Play Store have over one million downloads and were found impersonating the Online Kerala lottery which operates in offline mode.
According to AI-driven cyber-security firm CloudSEK, threat actors are using referral links to spread their campaigns.
On the landing page of the referral link, threat actors can be seen mentioning 5 per cent of the winning amount to be shared with all the users of the referral link and a free entry/ticket to the lottery.

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